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compass
«The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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Inventions
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compass, gunpowder, inventions, printing, The Times
«Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.»
«So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.»
«So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.»
«The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.»
«Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.»
«News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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Information
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compass, East, North, North and South, North West, publication, publications, South, South West, the North, West Point
«Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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chart, charted, charting, compass, guide, lamp, obligation, overboard, sink, The Bottom, tread, unchanged, voyage
«Though fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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compass, exceeds, malice, My state, overthrow, overthrowing, overthrows, The Wheel of Fortune, wheel